271 posts categorized "Hessed"

January 23, 2016

More than one-third suicides in Israel over the past decade were new immigrants, but the State of Israel is steadfastly refusing to fund services for new immigrants that would reduce that suicide rate because the state says it is “not a priority."

January 21, 2016

Outside the home of #2 Ashkenazi haredi non-hasidic rabbinic leader Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky is a new ATM-like device that allows users to deposit money for a charity Kanievsky supports and, through the use of computerized technology, give Kanievsky's aides the donor's name, Hebrew name, and other religiously pertinent information the charity promises Kanievsky will use when he gives the donor a remote blessing.

January 20, 2016

“I can’t save the world… but I had a debt to repay. It was Quakers and Christians who brought those [Kindertransport] children to England. It was a very high-minded operation and we Jews should also be thankful and do something for the endangered Christians.”

December 22, 2015

The bill would permit food that cannot be legally sold – for example, leftovers from catering companies, restaurants, hotels, wedding halls and food factories, and expired food from groceries that is still safe to consume – to be donated to nonprofits for distribution to poor large families.

December 17, 2015

The National Children’s Leukemia Foundation (NCLF) run by Zvi Shor, Yehuda Gutwein, Shlomo Shor, and Shlomo Donn, raised $9.7 million from unsuspecting donors but paid out only $57,000 in direct assistance to leukemia patients, less than 1% of the money raised.

August 15, 2015

According to a 2014 study, Israelis who were once religiously observant are at a high risk of committing suicide. The study was carried out by Bishvil Hahayim (Path to Life), a nonprofit organization that helps the families of people who have committed suicide. It found that 40 percent of people who are no longer religiously observant have had suicidal thoughts, compared to 12 percent, 10 percent and 6 percent, respectively, among respondents who described themselves as secular, traditional and religious. The incidence of suicidal ideation increased to 45 percent for young people in the process of leaving the religious community. Also, 90 percent of ex-religious respondents reported a low level of social support.

March 27, 2015

Regarding his call not to give them any help, even though among them there are needy families, Greenbaum justified his position by saying: "There is no need to say a lot regarding the fact that they are not justified in taking part in the haredi consensus whether for good or bad. Whoever separates himself from the group in a time of trouble, chazal [the sages of the Talmudic era] taught us that he cannot be included with us in a time of joy. He even added and said "There is no choice but to not give [charity; tzedaka] to those who are not a part of us what we work hard to get with little power."

March 25, 2015

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Rosenblatt talk about calling 911 to report the horrific Brooklyn house fire that killed seven haredi children early Saturday morning and their attempts after the fire to get and distribute fire safety information to their neighbors.

March 05, 2015

Halakha (Orthodox Jewish law) puts great emphasis on giving tzedaka (loosely translated as "charity"), and on no day is giving charity more important than Purim. Halakha commands all Jews to give charity to poor people on this day and mandates extra concern for their well-being. So how is this very great mitzvah (religious commandment) carried out in Chabad's main synagogue located at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn?

February 27, 2015

The complaint, filed Tuesday with the National Labor Relations Board, alleges that since Jan. 29 FEGS “has failed and refused to collectively bargain in good faith.” It said FEGS has repudiated various sections of the collective bargaining agreement, including those covering severance pay, advance notice of lay-off, vacation payout accrual, tuition reimbursement and flexible spending accounts.

February 08, 2015

Rabbi James Kennard, a former executive member of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) and the principal of the largest Jewish school in Melbourne, Australia, issued a public call for top Chabad leadership to resign over their conduct in the wide-ranging Chabad schools child sex abuse scandal that has shaken the Australian Jewish community to its core and shocked Australians country wide.

February 06, 2015

Along with the armed guards, some Israeli hareidim are also receiving firearms training paid for by the London group. While almost all other Jewish Israelis have served or are currently serving in the IDF and have firearms and basic self defense training, haredi generally refuse to serve in the IDF and therefore do not have either.

February 01, 2015

Did Chai Lifeline, the haredi charity that provides summer camps and outings for (primarily) haredi and Orthodox kids sick with cancer and other life-threatening diseases, essentially steal almost $1 million from a donor?

January 16, 2015

63-year-old Rabbi Ben-Tzion Welton, the founder and CEO of Vaad Hakashrus of Northern California (a small regional kosher certification agency), reportedly began experiencing extreme nausea this summer. His digestive system eventually stopped functioning properly. Welton recently was hospitalized for a week and is now dependent on a form of intravenous nutrition. He is unable to work and has lost 30 pounts since October.

December 29, 2014

“We thank Israel for their generous contribution to help stop Ebola and for recognizing that children are especially vulnerable during emergencies. Although progress has been made in controlling Ebola, much remains to be done to fully stamp out the disease and provide care to children whose lives have been upended by it.…"

November 09, 2014

Auschwitz prisoner No. A7733 has finally found family. Elias Gottesman (now Menachem Bodner), a survivor of the Mengele twin experiments, was only three years old when he, his twin brother Jeno (Yoilly) and his family were taken to Auschwitz. Last month, through the work of a very persistent volunteer genealogist, he found first cousins he didn’t know existed. From them he got a photograph of his parents whom he could no longer picture in his mind and other family photos. His entire family was lost in the death camps except his mother, who was killed in a pogrom in 1948, years after he had last seen her. Menachem is still searching for his twin brother, who he believes also survived Auschwitz.

October 12, 2014

A Chabad-Lubavitch organization meant to house and feed hasidim, primarily from Israel and France, who come to Crown Heights, Brooklyn for the month of Tishrei to spend the High Holidays, Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret “with” Chabad’s long-dead rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (who many of these Israeli hasidim believe is still alive, even though he died in 1994) has allegedly left many of these visitors – most of them apparently young women – homeless, forcing them to sleep on synagogue benches and in building stairwells – where one of them was allegedly sexually assaulted.

August 19, 2014

In an almost never-ending attempt to appease haredim, Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson has given haredi criminals easy (and often no-jail) plea deals, denigrated an anti-abuse activist and made far too many photo op visits to haredi rabbis, store and organizations. But he finally did something right – his latest photo op visit was to the haredi soup kitchen Masbia, which is arguably the the best and most effective haredi charity in all of New York City and one of the only truly deserving haredi places he's visited.

August 17, 2014

Areivim insists it isn't a true life insurance company and therefore should not be regulated by the State of New York, and it even commissioned a report from a white shoe law firm to back up that contention. But is that true?

July 25, 2014

HaPeles, the mouthpiece newspaper of the non-hasidic Ashkenazi haredi rebel faction led by Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, ordered haredim not to attend the Home Front Command's war education sessions held specifically for haredim in haredi neighborhoods of Jerusalem. Why? The sessions are all allegedly an evil IDF-government plot.

July 21, 2014

A haredi day camp, My Yellow Bus run by a Rebbitzen Liefer, moved from its old facilites to new facilities almost two weeks ago. But it lacked proper permits and a certificate of occupancy and could not open for almost a week, leaving kids – and parents – stranded without a day camp. Worse yet, the camp consistently refused to answer parents' requests for refunds.

July 17, 2014

A sign posted by the synagogue with the rabbi's explicit permission argues that giving beggars money does not fulfill the mitzvah of tzedaka (giving charity) and claims that helping them is perpetuating their frauds. It says some of these beggars are on "government programs" and don't buy kosher food with the money given them, anyway.

June 26, 2014

National nonprofit Kars4Kids today announced the upcoming release of a free app to prevent parents and caregivers from forgetting their young children in the car. With the summer only just begun and news headlines already reporting several heatstroke deaths of children forgotten in cars, the Kids N Kars app gives concerned parents a tangible preventative measure they can take to ensure such a story doesn’t happen to them.

June 19, 2014

United Hatzalah has debuted a new emergency smartphone and tablet computer app called "SOS” that allows users to send out a distress call to United Hatzalah and police with one swipe that includes their exact location.

April 13, 2014

A homeless woman approched the rabbi of the synagogue, Rabbi L, showed him a letter vouching for her from the Va'ad of Queens, and asked Rabbi L. for maoschitim (Passover charity) money. The rabbi allegedly yelled at woman in front of onlookers and stood by as she broke into tears and then walked away.

April 01, 2014

If the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty left you high and dry this year, or if their crisis hotline can't help you with food for Passover, here is an alternate source of Passover food for needy Jews.

February 05, 2014

Israel’s High Court of Justice has rejected an appeal filed by the haredi Mayor of Beit Shemesh Rabbi Moshe Abutbol. Abutbol wanted to block the new elections ordered after widespread haredi pro-Abutbol voter fraud was discovered on election day by police and poll watchers and a three-judge panel of the Jerusalem District Court voided the election results.

May 23, 2013

Agri Star, the successor company to Agriprocessors, has donated 20,000
pounds of meat products to Oklahoma tornado relief in partnership with
the haredi chain of soup kitchens Masbia. The meat and poultry
products, which Agri Star says have a wholesale value of more than
$50,000, were shipped from Postville, Iowa late yesterday afternoon,
Agri Star’s Jo-Ann Chadbourne told me yesterday.

March 12, 2013

Ezras Nashim, the women-only haredi EMT group, recently received the
okay from New York State to open their service to the public. Ezras
Nashim will compete with Hatzolah – the male-only haredi EMT service –
in heavily Jewish neighborhoods. Hatzolah refused to start a division of
female volunteer EMTs, prompting the creation of Ezras Nashim.

February 01, 2013

A member of Shomrim of Baltimore, Maryland received a certificate of
appreciation for helping free a woman trapped with her children in a
storage locker – in San Francisco, California. The San Francisco Police Department awarded the certificate to Yitzy Schleifer, Shomrim’s dispatcher. Schleifer
took a call from a confused, hysterical Spanish-speaking woman who
apparently mis-dialed her phone as she tried to get someone to free her
and her children from the storage locker in San Francisco.

January 29, 2013

Hasidic singer Mordechai Ben David and members of the Shira Choir visited former Agriprocessors VP Sholom Rubashkin in federal prison this week to help Rubashkin celebrate his daughter's wedding. Rubashkin is serving a 27-year sentence for bank fraud and related crimes. Ben David and the choir stayed with Rubashkin for 2 1/2 hours. They talked, sang and even danced.

December 16, 2012

It took about a year to iron out the details of the department's new
menorah policy, which allows each state prison to designate a room where
one menorah will be lit by a staff member or a volunteer religious
group leader. And while the candles burn, the inmates are supervised by
the staff member.

December 13, 2012

“This guy, Chaim Deutsch, blows me away,” Manhattan Beach Community
Group President Ira Zalcman said of the Flatbush Shomrim founder, who
lead a team of urban lumberjacks who cut up and carted off more than 70
trees that fell across Brooklyn roadways during the storm until the city
told him to put down his buzz saw.

December 12, 2012

Baltimore Shomrim received a hotline call just after
midnight Tuesday from a woman who was trapped with her children in a locked in a
storage rental facility in San Francisco. The email reportedly sent by Shomrim said the woman was "hysterical" and crying, and noted that the woman’s phone died during the call.

November 16, 2012

"…Jews believe in charity, but primarily as a private endeavor. The
tithing obligation, or the dispensing of gifts to the poor in Biblical
times (maasrot, leket, shikcha, pe’ah – known collectively as matnot aniyim, gifts to the poor), are all private ventures, and are not publicly coerced."

November 05, 2012

The UJA-Federation of Greater New York released $10
million to its member agencies and synagogues to use for emergency
hurricane relief. The decision to release the
funds was made last night by the UJA-Federation’s board of directors,
which met in a special session.

Lower East Side residents stuck without food (and sometimes without water) in the neighborhood's high rise buildings complain that the area's haredi and Orthodox rabbis left the area without helping the elderly, disabled and poorer residents they left behind.

November 02, 2012

"As our City begins to recover from Hurricane Sandy, I wanted to share
information about relief groups and other charitable organizations to
which you can donate, if it’s difficult for you to personally offer
supplies and shelter to people in need."

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